Recaps

Fang Lin asked Dugu Bo to use his Jade Qilin Serpent Emperor Poison to stimulate the remaining medicinal potency of the Ice and Fire Immortal Herbs, and survived the treatment. After Dugu Bo urged Dugu Yan to cultivate seriously, Fang Lin returned to Heaven Dou Academy and considered his gains and remaining opportunities.

• Dugu Yan reported that the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid had raised her to level thirty-eight, while Dugu Bo said the Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma had restored his vitality rather than directly raising his level.
• Fang Lin asked Dugu Bo for a tiny amount of Jade Qilin Serpent Emperor Poison to accelerate the absorption of his Immortal Herb medicines, and Dugu Bo agreed after hearing his reasoning.
• Fang Lin sat within the Aromatic Silk Beauty's halo as Dugu Bo applied the poison to his arm; Fang Lin used the herbs' remaining potency to protect his heart and meridians, then survived and absorbed nearly twenty percent more of their potency.
• Dugu Bo told Dugu Yan that the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid gave her a strong foundation and urged her to focus on cultivating, and she agreed.
• Back at Heaven Dou Academy, Fang Lin assessed his increased spiritual power and Soul Power, then identified the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue as his remaining opportunities for growth.

Dugu Yan’s rapid Soul Power growth prompted Qin Ming to change the Imperial Fighting Team’s training and enter them in seven-person Soul Fighting. The team reached Heaven Dou City and prepared for their first team battle that evening, without knowing who their opponents would be.

• Dugu Yan revealed that her grandfather’s secret technique had raised her to the thirty-eighth rank, astonishing the Imperial Fighting Team.
• Fang Lin assured Qin Ming that Dugu Yan’s growth would not cause hidden problems, and Qin Ming revised the team’s training plan to include seven-person matches.
• Qin Ming told the team that winning matches could pay for their stay at the Jade Pavilion, while losing would leave them sleeping on the streets.
• The next morning, Qin Ming took the team to Heaven Dou City, registered them for seven-person Soul Fighting, and learned their first match would be that evening.
• Fang Lin asked for information about their opponents, but Qin Ming said the arena would not disclose it and sent everyone to rest before the match.

The Imperial Fighting Team prepared to face the undefeated Seven Radiances Team, whose Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Soul Master could greatly strengthen her teammates. Qin Ming assigned Ye Lingling to command, and the chapter ended with her awkward greeting to the opposing commander before the match.

• Fang Lin and Yu Feng tried to share a room with Yu Tianheng, who paid for a single room and left them to arrange their own lodging.
• Qin Ming told the team their opponents had won six straight matches and described the Seven Radiances Team’s Soul Masters and abilities.
• Fang Lin recommended Ye Lingling as commander, and Qin Ming agreed; Ye Lingling explained that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda’s Soul Power limits how many people it can boost.
• The Imperial Fighting Team met Ning Tianze and the Seven Radiances Team in the arena waiting area.
• Ye Lingling awkwardly offered to heal Ning Tianze if she got hurt, and Fang Lin hurried her away before she could explain further.

The Seven Luminaries Team faced the Heaven Dou Imperial Team in a seven-person Soul Fighting match, opening with a coordinated charge and support enhancements. Fang Lin found that the short, stocky hammer Soul Master’s vibrating techniques could repel his attacks, leaving their duel unresolved.

• The Seven Luminaries Team and the Heaven Dou Imperial Team formed up and released their Martial Souls before the match began.
• Ning Tianze ordered her team to target Yu Tianheng, while Dugu Yan used her serpent poison to strengthen the Heaven Dou Imperial Team.
• The Seven Luminaries Team’s porcupine Soul Masters charged the Shi Mo Brothers, who held their formation with their shields.
• The bald fire-lion Soul Master and Iron Staff attacked Yu Tianheng while Fang Lin faced the short, stocky hammer Soul Master.
• Fang Lin dodged Vibrating Hammer's Wrath and counterattacked, but Heavy Hammer Dance deflected his strike and numbed his hand.

Fang Lin used his overlord body to defeat the heavy hammer Soul Master and then turned his attack toward Ning Tianze’s team. After injuring the flying Soul Master, he sent Yu Feng after Ning Tianze and left the outcome of the regrouping fight unsettled.

• Fang Lin outlasted the heavy hammer Soul Master’s Soul Skills, then overwhelmed his enhanced hammer with the Profound Nether Overlord Body Saber and knocked him out of the fight.
• Fang Lin saw Yu Tianheng struggling against the iron staff Soul Master and the bald man while Ye Lingling kept healing him.
• Ning Tianze ordered her team to retreat, but the Shi Mo Brothers and Yu Tianheng held their opponents in place as Yu Tianheng unleashed Thunderous Fury.
• Fang Lin broke through the flying Soul Master’s wind attacks and pursued Ning Tianze, then stopped and countered the slender woman’s full-speed dive, sending her crashing onto the platform.
• Fang Lin told Yu Feng to pursue Ning Tianze and charged at the injured slender woman.

The Heaven Dou Imperial Team defeated the Seven Luminaries Team after Zang Long’s choice to protect Xiao Qing left Ning Tianze exposed and Yu Tianheng turned the fight in his team’s favor. After the match, Fang Lin brought Ye Lingling to heal the injured opponents and asked Ning Tianze about the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Heart Separation Control technique.

• Zang Long rushed past Ning Tianze to help Xiao Qing, but Yu Feng knocked Ning Tianze off the platform while Xiao Qing attacked him in retaliation.
• Yu Tianheng paralyzed the bald fire-lion Soul Master with Thunder Dragon Claw and blasted him off the platform.
• Ning Tianze conceded the match, and the host announced the Heaven Dou Imperial Team’s victory over the Seven Luminaries Team’s six-win streak.
• Fang Lin told Yu Feng that Zang Long and Xiao Qing’s quarrel was love, then took Ye Lingling to offer healing to the defeated team.
• Ning Tianze accepted Ye Lingling’s offer, and Fang Lin asked him about the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Heart Separation Control technique.

Fang Lin learned from Ye Lingling how to cultivate Spiritual Power and began training his Sea of Consciousness. After the Imperial Fighting Team won fifteen matches and Fang Lin and Yu Feng advanced in rank, Fang Lin planned to bet on their future victories to afford ten-thousand-year whale glue.

• Ye Lingling showed Fang Lin his Sea of Consciousness and taught him how to disperse and compress it to temper his Spiritual Power.
• Dugu Yan questioned Fang Lin about visiting Ye Lingling late at night, then teased him that marrying Ye Lingling would mean joining her family.
• Fang Lin practiced cultivating his Spiritual Power for an hour before Yu Feng interrupted him, thinking he was spacing out.
• The Imperial Fighting Team won fifteen consecutive matches, earned a Bronze Soul Fighter Badge with 555 points, and Fang Lin and Yu Feng advanced to ranks thirty-six and thirty respectively.
• Fang Lin asked Yu Feng to find someone to bet on the Imperial Fighting Team's wins, and Yu Feng agreed to have his grandfather send money.

Fang Lin and Yu Feng secretly organized bets on the Imperial Fighting Team, and their winning streak brought them a huge fortune. After reaching thirty consecutive victories and completing Qin Ming’s assignment early, they collected their winnings and prepared to secure the money.

• Yu Feng summoned Chen Feng and Yu Ling, who pooled money to bet on the Imperial Fighting Team’s matches.
• Fang Lin and Yu Feng adopted a serious attitude in battle, and the Imperial Fighting Team won twelve more matches to reach thirty consecutive victories.
• After completing Qin Ming’s training assignment ahead of schedule, Fang Lin and Yu Feng secretly met Chen Feng and Yu Ling to divide the betting payouts.
• Fang Lin took his share, bringing his assets to 47,600 Gold Soul Coins, while Yu Feng received close to 30,000 from his own investment.
• Yu Ling and Chen Feng planned to deposit the remaining winnings and travel back separately, then waited in the alley until an old man with snow-white hair appeared.

The Heaven Dou Imperial Team finished its team Soul Fighting training after the Great Soul Arena ran out of suitable opponents, and Ye Lingling discussed choosing her Third Soul Ring. Qin Ming gave the team a month's vacation, and the members departed the inn as Dugu Yan took Ye Lingling shopping.

• The clan leader found Yu Ling and her companion, forgave their gambling scheme, and flew them away without making them deposit the money.
• The Great Soul Arena supervisor told Qin Ming that no suitable teams remained to face the Imperial Fighting Team, and Qin Ming declined to enter a death match.
• The team reviewed its latest battle, and Ye Lingling said she was nearing level thirty and choosing between two life-type Soul Beasts for her Third Soul Ring.
• Qin Ming ended the team's training and granted everyone a month's vacation while he looked for suitable teams in other cities.
• The members checked out of the inn; Yu Tianheng and the Shi Mo Brothers returned to the academy with Qin Ming, Yu Feng disappeared, and Dugu Yan took Ye Lingling shopping.

Fang Lin arranged for the Seven Treasures Pavilion to acquire ten-thousand-year whale glue and bought younger whale rubber, while Ning Yuanzhi began investigating him as a potential recruit. After returning to Heaven Dou Academy with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, Fang Lin wondered how to give Ye Lingling the thousand-year whale rubber.

• Fang Lin asked Ning Yuanzhi to secure ten-thousand-year whale glue for up to forty thousand Gold Soul Coins, then bought thousand-year and hundred-year whale rubber.
• Ning Yuanzhi asked Ning Shuihe to investigate Fang Lin's background and cultivation, considering him a possible recruit for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Fang Lin met Dugu Yan at the Brocade Workshop, where Ye Lingling emerged in an outfit Dugu Yan had chosen for her.
• Dugu Yan bought Ye Lingling several more outfits, and the three returned to Heaven Dou Academy together.
• Fang Lin looked at the thousand-year whale rubber in his dorm and wondered how to give it to Ye Lingling.

Fang Lin bought jade marrow-congealing herbs and mixed them with thousand-year whale rubber to make a concoction for Ye Lingling, hoping to strengthen her physique for absorbing an older Soul Ring. Ye Lingling drank the soup and began refining it with Soul Power as Fang Lin waited outside, uncertain whether he had used too much herb.

• Fang Lin asked Cheng Mo for mild herbs that could mask food's taste and bought ten stalks of jade marrow-congealing herb.
• Fang Lin heated thousand-year whale rubber, blended it with the herbs, and made a pale gold-green concoction.
• Fang Lin brought the concoction to Ye Lingling and told her his family recipe could strengthen her physique and help her absorb older Soul Rings.
• After Fang Lin insisted, Ye Lingling drank just under half the pot of Jade Dregs Soup.
• Ye Lingling felt coolness in her mind and heat in her body, then followed Fang Lin's advice and began refining the soup with Soul Power.
• Fang Lin waited outside Ye Lingling's room and wondered if he had added too much jade marrow-congealing herb.

Fang Lin continued cultivating and watched Ye Lingling reach rank thirty before she obtained her third Soul Ring. During the Imperial Fighting Team’s tour, Dugu Yan broke through to rank forty at fifteen and a half, ending the trip early; she stayed near Xilu City to seek a Soul Ring, while Fang Lin headed toward Suotuo City to visit home.

• Fang Lin practiced spiritual cultivation and estimated he could reach the peak of rank thirty-nine within a year.
• Ye Lingling thanked Fang Lin for the Jade Dregs Soup and suggested adjusting its ingredients to reduce the heat.
• Ye Lingling obtained a sixteen-hundred-year Soul Ring from a Life-Severing Newt and advanced to rank thirty-one.
• Qin Ming took the Imperial Fighting Team on a tour of nearby cities to train in their Soul Fighting Arenas.
• Dugu Yan announced she had reached rank forty at fifteen and a half, so Qin Ming ended the tour early.
• Dugu Yan stayed near Xilu City and wrote to Dugu Bo for help obtaining a Soul Ring, while Fang Lin set out for Suotuo City to visit home.

Fang Lin and Dugu Yan accompanied Dugu Bo into Star Dou Great Forest to find Dugu Yan a fourth Soul Ring. After Dugu Bo went into a burrow to capture a Cave Demon Spider, a seven-thousand-year-old Blazing Flame Centipede emerged, leaving Fang Lin and Dugu Yan to stall it while they waited for him.

• Dugu Yan told Fang Lin she wanted a spider-type Soul Beast for a venom-based fourth Soul Skill, and she considered a Man Faced Demon Spider or Cave Demon Spider.
• Dugu Bo spotted a forty-eight-hundred-year-old Cave Demon Spider and leaped into its burrow to capture it.
• Fang Lin kept watch and considered hunting a Man Faced Demon Spider for a chance at an External Soul Bone.
• Dugu Yan grew uneasy when Dugu Bo did not return, and Fang Lin noticed scorched ground and signs that another creature had emerged from the burrow.
• A seven-thousand-year-old Blazing Flame Centipede appeared, and Fang Lin told Dugu Yan to stall it and make noise until Dugu Bo returned.

Fang Lin and Dugu Yan struggled against a powerful Blazing Flame Centipede while Dugu Bo remained absent. As the pair faced what seemed like certain death, Dugu Yan asked Fang Lin whether he was interested in her, and he spotted a green-robed figure in a distant treetop.

• Dugu Yan used her poison and Soul Skills to support Fang Lin as he fought the Blazing Flame Centipede.
• Fang Lin injured the beast but was badly hurt and spent much of his Soul Power, while Dugu Yan briefly distracted it with her Soul Bone Skill.
• Dugu Yan covered the area with red poison mist and helped Fang Lin recover as they waited in vain for Dugu Bo to answer her call.
• Dugu Yan asked Fang Lin whether he was interested in her, and Fang Lin noticed the corner of a green robe in a treetop half a kilometer away.